Today’s post is another in the series “Meet an Economics Ph.D. alumna”. Marjorie Ruth Clark’s professional career took her from Berkeley (undergraduate and graduate education) to Nebraska (Home Economics) to Washington, D.C. (Departments of Agriculture and Labor) with about a fifteen year marriage/family “break” in between.
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Dates
Born 18 December, 1899 in Eureka, Walla Walla, Washington.
Returned from France in June 1927.
University of California (Berkeley) Ph.D. 1929: Thesis “French syndicalism (1910-1927).
Source: University of California Graduate Division. Record of Theses Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of California, 1926 -1931. Supplement to Record for 1885-1926 (University of California, 1932),p. 23.
1936: Assistant director of the Labor Relations Division of the Resettlement Administration, Washington, D.C. “She has been associate research professor of economics at the University of Nebraska, and a member of the Research Staff of the American Federation of Labor.”
Married Max Allen Egloff 12 March 1941 in Washington, D.C.
1959: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Assistant Commissioner, Publications and Program Planning. Office of Publications, Chief of the Special Publications Branch. Salary $9,890.
Source: United States Civil Service Commission. Official Register of the United States, 1959.
Died 16 March 1988 in Baltimore, Md. (Burial in Arlington National Cemetery)
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From newspaper reports in Nebraska
“Saturday, Dec. 22 saw the marriage of Miss Marjorie Ruth Clark to William John Hiller.” [Note: I have not found any other reference to this, perhaps annulled?]
Source: Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln Nebraska) 27 Jan 1929, p. 21.
Dr. Marjorie Ruth Clark of the agricultural college. Report of her survey of 180 households raising chickens. 197 women started, less than a score have dropped out. “Dr. Clark pays each of the recorders $1 a month”.
Source: The Lincoln Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 7 November 1929, p. 22.
Miss Marjorie Ruth Clark associate professor in home economics research at Nebraska university, spent August 1930 studying organized labor and observing labor conditions in Mexico. Most work done in Mexico City in the government libraries.
Source: The Lincoln Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 28 Sep 1930, p. 4.
Marjorie Ruth Clark Ph.D., associate professor of economics at the University of Nebraska, was awarded one of the research fellowships for 1931 by the Social Science Research Council.
Source: The Lincoln Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 8 March 1931, p. 5.
Marjorie Ruth Clark, assistant [sic] professor of home economics at the university of Nebraska. Received on of thirty research fellowships by the Social Science Research council. Her fellowship extended for four months. “received her degree as doctor of philosophy in California and came to the University of Nebraska in 1928. Her home is at 1144 So. 11th.”
Source: The Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska) 10 Apr. 1932, p. 12.
Granted four months leave of absence by the University of Nebraska (home economics department). Left Sunday for Washington “where she will work with the labor advisory board for the NRA and with the A.F. of L. in assisting in the representation of labor interests at code hearings and the preparation of labor briefs in connection with the various codes.”
Source: The Lincoln Star (Lincoln, Nebraska).. 4 October 1933, p. 7.
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Washington Post Obituary
MARJORIE RUTH CLARK EGLOFF
Labor Economist
Marjorie Ruth Clark Egloff, 88, a labor economist who had worked for the Department of Labor and the Department of Agriculture in Washington, died of congestive heart failure March 16 at St. Joseph Hospital in Baltimore.
Dr. Egloff was born in Walla Walla, Wash. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, then returned to Berkeley where she received a doctorate in labor economics.
She was on the faculty at the University of Nebraska before moving to Washington in the 1930s and joining the Department of Agriculture as a specialist on French and Mexican labor movements.
In 1940 [sic] she married Max Allen Egloff. They lived in the Caribbean during the 1940s and early 1950s, then returned to the Washington area. After the death of her husband in 1956 Dr. Egloff went to work for the Labor Department. She retired in 1965.
She wrote several books on labor movements in Mexico, France and elsewhere, and in retirement she edited yearly presidential manpower reports.
Dr. Egloff was a member of the National Press Club, the Woman’s National Democratic Club and the Westmoreland Congregational Church.
She lived in Washington before moving to Towson, Md., in 1985.
Survivors include two children, Dr. Allen C. Egloff of Arnold, Md., and Susan Egloff Efnor of Redlands, Calif., and two grandchildren.
Source: The Washington Post, March 19, 1988.
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Publications
Clark, Marjorie Ruth. The British Labour Government in Contemporary Opinion. University of California, Berkeley. M.A. thesis, 1925.
______________. Syndicalism in France, 1910-1927. University of California Publications in Economics (Vol. 8, no. 1), Berkeley, 1928. Ph.D. thesis, 484 pages.
______________ and Greta Gray. Water Carried for Household Purposes on Nebraska Farms. Bulletin, University of Nebraska, Agricultural Experiment Station, 234. Lincoln: University of Nebraska College of Agriculture, 1929.
______________. A History of the French Labor Movement (1910-1928). University of California Press, 1930.
______________. French Syndicalism of the Present. Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 38 (June 1930), pp. 317-27.
Grace Margaret Morton and Marjorie Ruth Clark, “Income and Expenditures of Women Faculty Members in the University of Nebraska,” Journal of Home Economics, 1930.
______________ and Greta Gray. The Routine and Seasonal Work of Nebraska Farm Women. Bulletin, University of Nebraska, Agricultural Experiment Station, 238. Lincoln: University of Nebraska College of Agriculture, 1930.
______________. The Contribution of Nebraska Farm Women to Farm Income through Poultry and Dairy Products. Bulletin, University of Nebraska, Agricultural Experiment Station, 258. Lincoln: University of Nebraska College of Agriculture, 1931.
______________. Organized Labor and the Family-Allowance System in France, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 39 (August 1931), pp. 526-37.
______________. History of the French Labor Movement (1910-1928). Diritto del labor, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 577ff.
______________. Organized Labor in Mexico. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1934.
______________. Recent History of Labor Organization. American Academy of Political and Social Science, Annals, Vol. 184 (March 1936), pp. 161ff.
______________. Recent History of Labor Organization. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 184 (1936): 161-68.
______________, and S. Fanny Simon. The Labor Movement in America New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1938.
______________. A Look at American Labor in 1959. Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 83, No. 1 (January 1960), pp. 10-17.
______________, ed. From the Best of the Monthly Labor Review. Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 88, No. 7, pp. 787-802.
Image Source: Marjorie Clark, junior year picture. University of California yearbook, The 1918 Blue and Gold, p. 358. (Record of 1916-17 published by the Junior Class in 1917)